"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" - Theophile Gautier

"Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of." - Sir Walter Scott

"Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement and love without penalties." - W. L. George

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind." - Cleveland Amory (from: The CAT Who Came For Christmas)

"The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life." - Carl Van Vechten

"There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten." - Jules Champfleury

"Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves." - Mary Wilkins

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." - Colonial American proverb

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

"One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." - Ernest Menaul

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God." - Unknown

"Cats are glorious creatures who must on no accounts be underestimated... Their eyes are fathomless depths of cat-world mysteries. - Lesley Anne Ivory (from Glorious Cats, The Paintings of Lesley Anne Ivory)

"To bathe a cat requires brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction... and a cat. The last ingredient is the hardest to come by." - Stephen Baker

"Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives." Albert Schweitzer

"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." - St. Francis of Assisi

"God made the cat in order to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger." - Unknown

"Dogs have owners, cats have staff." - Unknown

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Unknown

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau

"A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favourite cat, they, too, would purr." - Martin Buxbaum

"The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world." - Lynn M. Osband

"Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything." - Hank Ketchum

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick

"Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives." - Stephen Baker

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not." - Ernest Hemingway

"There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat." - Tay Hohoff

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them." - Jim Davis